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Friday, January 18, 2013

honeycomb quilting

Welcome to finish it up Friday! I have no finish to share today, but I survived my uber busy week, so I'm celebrating that accomplishment. Phew!

I am working toward a quilty finish, so that counts for something! During my Tuesday night machine quilting class I was messing around with some stitch settings and I came up with this. I'm calling it honeycomb quilting. It's basically a long stretched out zig zag stitch, and it's done with a walking foot. I took a photo of the settings so I would remember how to do it. :)

On the Janome Memory Craft 6600 (this is the machine I used at my LQS) I used the #9 stitch. The stitch width is set at 5 and the stitch length set at 4.

On my Horizon 7700 (sorry for the crummy photo) I used the same settings...except the zig zag stitch is # 11 on this machine rather than #9. Again, the stitch width is 5 and length is 4.

It's a fun way to quilt resulting in a texture that is just fan-tas-tic. I can't wait to finish it up so I can wash and dry it and see what happens. I bet it's soooooo good!

How about you? Do you have a finish to share today? If so, please link up. Thanks for joining me for finish it up Friday!

Yes! It's totally acceptable to stitch something else with your walking foot. Just make sure your foot has an elongated/oval opening (rather than just a tiny circle) so you don't break a needle. Hope that makes sense and doesn't confuse you! :)

Brilliant! I'll be taking pics of stitch settings from now on. It's never till I go to turn the machine back on mid project that I realize I have no clue what setting I was using to get this perfect quilting stitch :(

love this stitch, I'll find it on my Designer I..they say we don't need a walking foot, but I think maybe I do.I have used the large wavy stitch to quilt, it works really well..but love this honeycomb effect..

Neat! I am still trying to work up my nerve to try free motion quilting, but until then, I use my walking foot a lot. I even have the 6600, so I can use these instructions directly on my machine. Woot!

I have to try that out soon! I'm just about finished a small version of Missing U. I was going to do a loopy meander sort of quilting everywhere except in the white spaces. But maybe the long zigzag would work too. Thanks for all the inspiration!

I've been seeing that curvy stitch for a while, but I thought it must be some decorative stitch that my machine didn't have. I finally set out to find it and discovered it is stitch #4 on my Bernina 153. Thanks for the push I needed to figure it out!

Love the honeycomb effect. I handquilted a quilt with a similar hexagon pattern, and you're right about it looking great once it's been washed. I LOVE how you figured out how to get this effect on a machine, though.

That looks really great. I wonder if my machine will do it? Its a Viking Sapphire 875 or something like that. I know it has a stitch that looks like that, but it would have taken me years to figure out the length and width you've come up with. Looking forward to your finished quilt!

Thanks for sharing your settings! I tried doing that same stitch on my Honeycomb quilt and decided it didn't look like Malka's so I ripped it out. Now that you say you like it, maybe I will do it again, LOL!

Thanks for sharing your settings! I tried doing that same stitch on my Honeycomb quilt and decided it didn't look like Malka's so I ripped it out. Now that you say you like it, maybe I will do it again, LOL!

I bought a MemoryCraft 6500P and it was just delivered yesterday--I stayed up super late playing with it, and I'm so delighted you shared this! I bought it for the quilting capabilities (I also make handbags) and I'm excited to pump out some quilts with creative stitchery! Thanks for saving me the figuring-it-out time with this one :)

Thanks for the info, I have the 7700 and alway love learning something new on it. Have you seen this tutorial for the Serpentine Stitch? I found it very helpful. It can be found at onlinesewing.squarespace.com/horizon/2010/10/6/serpentine-stitch.html

Thanks for the quilting tip. I have a 6600 too. I want to quilt more of my own quilts but am never sure what to do. This is a perfect way to quilt the split rail fence quilt I am making for my granddaughter.

snapping a picture of setting is so smart. I do that with quilt layout but never thought of it. So much of what I do is piecing and it is the default on my machine. I found that I had turned my machine off and forgot to reset it to FMQ but thankfully noticed before too long. Love your quilt and quilting as always.

Thank you, thank you, thank you. I have seen this and tried it out on my machine but could not get it right. It just looked like a zig zag. I never had the settings! I just tried it and it worked. I have an Elna and just set to the zig zag and used your settings. It worked!!! pam

I'm not sure if I left a comment yet to tell you I've used this quilting method three times now. I absolutely love the effect and it makes for faster quilting. I have this post bookmarked and just keep coming back to it. On the last quilt I did I adjusted the settings a bit and got a sort of rounded effect. Thanks so much for sharing, I would have never wandered from straight line quilting without your tutorial.